Heart Of Fire: You'll Be In My Heart

by Melody Brush

Epilogue: You'll Be In My Heart

EPILOGUE:

YOU'LL BE IN MY HEART

Five Years Later

The alarm clock went off at six AM, signaling the start of a new day as Blazing reached out his hoof to shot off the larm. He sat up with a groan as he stretched his wings and forelegs as let out a loud yawn. He got out of the bed and proceeded down the hall into the bathroom where he to a quick hot shower, brushed his teeth and preened his feathers.

When he was done he took a closer look at his reflection and could swear he saw some grey strands of hair in his mane. He shrugged it off and left the bathroom down the hall, through the living room and into the kitchen where he made some toast.

He looked up at the calendar and saw all the days marked off except for today, the sixth. It was five years ago today that he married Chocolate before the changelings attacked. Tears started to stream down his face as he relived the events of that horrible day.

He finished his simple breackfast and started for the door and when he opened it Rainbow Dash was standing outside with her hoof raised like she was about to knock. She was a deep blue jacket with badges pinned on the pockets and a proud smile on her face. "Hey, Stripes." She chirped.

"Dash!" Blazing cheered as he embraced his old friend. "What are you doing here? Shouldn't you be in Manehatton training with the Wonderbolts right now?"

"I'm on my vacation." She replied. "I wanted to come and check up on you. How've you been?"

"Great." Blazing replied with a proud smile. "I was just heading out to the station. You wanna come?"

"Aw, yeah!" Rainbow answered. Blazing stept out of his new cottage and closed the door behind him then the two took off toward the Canterlot Train Station.

The station was scarcely filled with ponies when Blazing and Raindow arrived, except a few buisness ponies, who checked their hoof watches to see what the time was. Blazing glanced up at a clock on the wall, six-fourty-five. Anyminute now the train would be arriving at the station with its passengers and take the ponies waiting to their destinations.

"You excited, Stripes?" Rainbow asked, nudging Blazing in the shoulder. He rolled his eyes at the nickname then he smiled at her with a nod.

"I've been waiting for over a week now, Dash. You can bet your Wonderbolt Uniform I am excited." He replied. The sound of grinding mettle filled the distance, growing louder, signalling the train was getting closer.

The train pulled into the station and came to a stop with the sound of grinding mettle then the doors opened and several ponies trotted out of the carts as the buisness ponied boarded the train. Blazing and Dash looked through the crowd until he pointed a hoof to the cart to their left. They trotted over through the crowd toward the cart. Two pegasi, a mare and a young filly about four years old fallowed by four young mares came trotting out of the cart.

The filly was yellow with a brown mane, she was quite cheery and filled with energy. She saw Blazing and bursted into a run toward him. "DADDY!" The filly chided. Blazing sat on his haunches holding his forelegs out as his daughter bounced into him nearly knocking him down.

"There's daddy's little girl!" He said, kissing her on the cheek and hugging her tightly. " I missed you so much!" When Blazing let his daughter go, she looked up at Dash and bounced up into her forelegs.

"Hi, aunt Dashy!" She said.

"Hey, Cream." Raindow replied, hugging her tightly.

"Hey, Blazing!" The three mares called out. Blazing smiled to each of them.

"Hey Crusaders." Blazing replied. "Have you three been staying out of trouble?"

"Like always!" Scootaloo answered as she bolted to Rainbow and Cream, hugging Dash around the neck. Blazing then looked over to the last mare he had not yet greeted. She had her brown mane done back in a ponytail and wore her necklace with the red flaming wing and golden heart shining on her blue coat.

"Hey, sweetheart." He said with a proud smile.

"Hi, Shmoopy Doo." She replied. Chocolate laughed at Blazing as his cheeks flushed red to the nickname. "I never tire of that!"

"Oh, shut up and c'mere!" Blazing pulled her into a hug as he kissed her.

~~~

Shortly after the changelings left Ponyville five years ago. Blazing sobbed over Chocolate's body, the towns ponies gathered around him, disbaliefe, shock, sadness and remorse all filled their faces. Rainbow and Spark came up behind him, Spark placing a hoof on his shoulder. Blazing looked at the still body laying on is lap, his tears dripping from his chin onto the black shell.

"I love you, Chocolate." He said through his sobs. "I always will. You'll always be in my heart." He gently placed his nose on Chocolate and sat there for a minute before he blinked. He felt her stomach rise and fall slowly. He lifted his head back up, looking at his wife.

"Oh, do stop crying." She moaned. "You're going to make me cry." Blazing gasped, his heart burning with joy as more tears streamed down his face when Chocolate looked up at him. She slowly wrapped her hooves around his neck as he hugged her tightly against his cheek. "Take me home you sweet softy." She ordered. Blazing got to his hind hooves and flew off toward the Ponyville Hospital.

"First, I want to make sure you're okay." He said earning a concerned yet thankfull look from his wifes face. He landed outside the hospital doors and went right inside to have the doctors check on her.

~~~

After Chocolate recovered from her injuries, they packed their things from the house and set everything up to move away from his home town.

"Are you sure you wanna leave Ponyville?" Chocolate asked as she admired a picture of them together infront of the house. "You grew up here." He looked up at her with a smile.

" Honey, we can't stay here anymore." He said as tears started to form in his eyes. "Everypony knows you're a changeling and most of them will not approve of it."

"But, why Canterlot?" She asked, fear rising in her face.

"Don't worry, I have everything worked out." He said with a reassuring smile. "I have a cottage just outside of the borderline so nopony will be able to barge in on us. You can freely walk around as a changeling and the princess has our backs."

She smiled at him and leaned in to kiss him. After they held onto each other for a while they resumed their packing. A week later they found themselves in their new home. After they were settled in they got things set up to properly get married, inviting all their friends and Blazing's mother Autumn Leaves, her husband Winter Breeze and Blazing's birth parents, Sunlight Skies and Zecora and his sister Spitfire. Princess Luna, herself, conducted the ceremony with Celestia their to guid her.

After their wedding they decided they wanted a baby and nearly nine months later Blazing and Chocolate were sitting on the couch together in their new home as he rubbed his hoof over her swollen belly and leaned in to kissed her on the cheek. Chocolate gasped making him flinch.

"What's wrong?" Blazing asked in alarm. She looked up at him, panting as though she were in pain. She had been having contractions all evening, wich ment it was almost time to meet their child.

"It's coming!" She said. He blinked. "Sweethear, the foal's coming!" Blazing waisted no time in swooping her in his forelegs and bolting out the front door toward the castle where Princess Celestia herself would aid in the birth. He flew straight for the princess' private chambers in the northernmost tower. He bolted through the winder with Chocolate in his forelegs.

"Princess, I'm gunna be a father!" He yelled. His sudden entrance made Celestia jump, but she quickly regained her smile as she looked up at the couple and ignited her horn to take Chocolate in her magic and set the pregnant changeling on her own bed as she pulled a rope that rang a bell. Shortly after, Princess Luna came into the chamber with a curious look on her face untill she saw Chocolate on Celestia's bed.

"Sister, go get some towels and blankets fast." Celestia said as she looked up to Luna. The younger alicorn nodded and bolted out of the room and came back with a stack of towels and blankets as her older sister instrucked. Celestia took the towels in her magic as Chocolate let out a scream of pain.

"Okay, my little pony," she said as she set a few towels up under the changeling, "let's meet your foal." Blazing sat next to his screaming wife and took her hoof in his to help support her.

She screamed on the bed as Blazing held her hoof in his own, Celestia and Luna at the end of the bed telling her to 'push'. She gave one more scream as she did what she was told, the pain coursing through her body for severl long minutes before hearing little cries.

Celestia took the screaming newborn in her magic and dried her off with the towels then wrapped the foal in one of the blankets and came up with the bundle and a smile on her face. "It's a girl." She said, placing the foal in her mothers forelegs. The two smiled at the little yellow changeling filly wrapped in pink as she giggled at her parents. Blazing kissed Chocolate on the cheek, tears streaming down his face.

"S-she's beautiful, sweetheart." He said as he cried. Chocolate looked up at her husband with a proud, weak smile on her face.

"What are we going to name her?" Blazing thought about it for a minute as he let his tears fall off his chin. The two princesses got up and left the couple alone with their newborn daughter.

"How about, Marshmallow?" The changeling filly giggled. "You like that?" He asked his daughter earning another round of giggles as she stretched her hooves out to him.

"Why Marshmallow?" Chocolate asked with an arched brow.

"Marshmallows go good with hot chocolate." He answered.

"Well, then I'm calling her, Cream." She said looking at her daughter, who gave her a fit of giggles. "I think she likes that better." Blazing smiled down at his daughter with a satisfied smile.

"Cream it is then."

~~~

Every day for the next four years, Autumn Leaves and her husband Winter Breeze would come to see their son, his wife and their daughter. Of course Cream would never get to know her grandmother, Queen Chrysalis, but she would still meet Autumn Leaves, her husband, Winter Breeze and Blazing's birth parents, Sunlight Skies and Zecora.

Upon meeting her grandparents, Cream took an extreme liking to them, though Autumn and Winter still had to get use to the fact that their son was maried to a changeling.

Cream grew up to be quite a hoof full, as well. She was half changeling, so she could not change as much as her mother could, but she did have a good range of pegasi and changed frequently to play games with her parents. She may have been a hoof full, but she was still a good filly. Blazing taught her good morals and to be kind to others much like his mother did when she adopted him and Cream followed her fathers teaching faithfully.

Blazing and his family and friends were all laughing as they caught up with each other on the events of the past week. "Now, who's hungry?" Blazing asked. The small crowd of mares around him all called out 'me' earning a chuckle from him. "Then let's get our flanks over to the restaurant!"

"Honey! Language around Cream." Chocolate protested. Blazing flinched and hugged his daughter.

"You didn't hear anything." He whispered in her ear. She looked up at him.

"Hear what?" She asked.

"Exactly!" The four mares laughed at Blazing while Chocolate swatted him on the shoulder. Then the group trotted off out of the station

THE END

Author's Note:

Special thanks to mechafone for allowing me to use his OC 'Spark Storm' and CptConfusion for allowing me to use her OC 'Forest, the zebra'.
And thanks to my readers for reading my stories. Without your support I would not have the motivation to write.

Thank you.

Comments

[Agent Everfree]

Hmm What how to review this, well lets see.

The story was very heart warming with the idea of finding look were you would never have looked, The characters are nice and charming and canon Characters do stick to there play, it is off putting that the Mane 6 know Blazing well but then the life of the character are unknown, but Blazing getting upset a lot was kind off putting but not too much. The concept of the mother not wanting to fall in love is also pretty nice, like a Disney Little Mermaid moment which is pretty good too and did give me a very Nostalgic feel which i really like. The are moment were i would have like to see characters bond a bit more like when they go to Cantralot but we can look past that.

Things that were off with it, was mostly with the griffons, on why were they there, and why would they attack Celestia and wouldn't this become a problem for the future?

The only other problem was a few spelling mistakes and missing works that take some of the flow away from the reading but not too much to make it bad.

All in all this was a very charming story and a joy to read, other could learn from this with the idea of changeling stories.

Ponyfic Critic Rating: It's The Perfect Fic

I'm a Ponyfic Critic and i read is so you don't have too

[Melody Brush]

2234371 Thank you for your opinion, it is very much appreciated. I'm glad you liked it and thank you for the pointers, your words are helping me to think of things that can be added later. As for the spelling errers,I'm getting better about that and I intend to go back to this eventually to correct those errers.

Thanks again for the positive criticism.

[Agent Everfree]

2234573 Your very much welcome

[Melody Brush]

2296877I know, I'm going to go back eventually and fix what I can.

[Melody Brush]

2323456 That's okay. I don't expect everyone too. But, thank you for reading this much.

[Melody Brush]

2326869 I've made changes here and there since he made that comment, so maby they didn't when he posted his comment.

[Melody Brush]

2326946 Keep reading to find out.

[Dragaen]

ok, after reading this I have but one thing to say... how can you be so brilliant? this is one of those stories that I just can't get off my mind. I've always been fascinated with changelings but this makes my fascination grow like wild fire. and what's more is your oc character. He was fascinating, he had emotions, he had his own hobbies, and he has his own kind of skill; even if he doesn't like to use some it *remembering back at the forest or maybe even that burn mark he left on his mother-in-law* They were both brilliant, and the filly they had just has me more excited then Pinkie Pie breaking the fourth wall. But after giving some of the good I do have to say that some of the writing was... well spelling errors were obvious but hey, everyone makes that kind of mistake and even some of the words weren't of that meaning; however I noticed some of them were spelled wrong b/c I'm not sure myself but I believe were misspelled b/c it was fitting to the characters accent, not sure of all of them but hey, was still a smart Idea if I do say so myself. Not to mention on another note you should keep in mind, ponies in Equestria don't know what hell is; like when I saw that I mean they literally don't know the word; my advice the next time you want to write that in, maybe try thinking out loud in the point of view of the character, at least that's what i try doing whenever I'm deep into a story. but I do have a question though and be honest. Can I be your editor on this story , I got Microsoft Word and everything and I won't charge a dime to do it . However if you say no, that's fine too, every writer should learn to correct their own mistakes which is nice, b/c it's show the writer improving his own work... but if ya by any chance want someone to help *cough* like me *cough* I would be more than happy to help in anyway I can . I actually thought about maybe getting a second opinion on some of the writing from my teacher over at Ivy Tech but... now I'm getting ahead of myself . On a final note before this bores the hell out of you like I'm sure it may or may not. I can honestly say I'm looking forward to some more writing on Blazing and Chocolate oh and Cream can't forget about Cream who's probably going to be playing a very important role in the next story I'm sure.

[Dragaen]

bah, I'm so rude, I was so into writing that I noticed I didn't say he or she, due to the fact writers aren't just guys but can be girls; Lauren Faust forgive me . See what I mean, even I can make some mistakes

[Melody Brush]

2328858 Glad you liked it.

[Melody Brush]

2328951 You, my friend, have made my day! Thank you so much for your words and opinion. And you're not the first to want to help me out in this matter. I would, however, like to go back and fix what I can myself. Yeah, I was hesitant on 'hell' but I wanted to add to his anger a bit and I most definitely didn't want to use 'blazes' or 'Tartarus' so 'hell' was a final. Plus, the universe Blazing is in is my good friend Mechafone's and he uses strunger lenguage 'sometimes'. Thank you again my friend.

[Melody Brush]

2328961 That's okay.

[Melody Brush]

2328951 Oh, BTW, my inspiration was the song 'You'll Be In My Heart' by Phill Collins. I love that song.

[Dragaen]

2329079

[Dragaen]

2329091 very smart btw... it took me a minute to put 2 and 2 together though, forgot all about Tarzan

[Melody Brush]

2330798 I never thought about the song until I found a Nyx tribute video.

[First Captain Lunarblade]

Darn good story i liked it a lot

[Melody Brush]

2390187 Apart from all the spelling errers... but I'm glad you like the story.

[Melody Brush]

2474091 It's got less errers then before I went through it.

[Melody Brush]

2511193 Glad you like it, and thank you for pointing those out.

[Melody Brush]

2511224 Dash does get upset as you can guess.

[Melody Brush]

2511290 I must have watched that in the month I wrote that chapter.

[Melody Brush]

2511364 Soul Of Songs, that was one big explosion!

[Lucky424]

If I didn't already know there was more, I would be reaching through my screen and....actually, it can be a surprise!
Well, aside from the odd spelling mistake (sighn=sign, fallowed=followed, and a few others), this was a pretty heart warming story.

2511598 I can do bigger, if you want?

[Melody Brush]

2511814Read my friend mechafone's story 'Star Cross School Days' to find out.

[Melody Brush]

2512027I'm glad you liked it. When I get a laptop with spellcheck all those errers will be gone.

[Melody Brush]

2872649 It was a sper of the moment name. Up until then I was writing it with no Idea what to call her and the hot chocolate filled the gap.

[brony323]

D'aaaaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwwww

[Melody Brush]

2873564 Glad you liked it.

[Melody Brush]

4051985 I'm completely rewriting the story anew. Check out The Changeling In My Heart. It's the same thing, just rebooted.

[brony323]

4054945 still think it needs a sequel. Maybe one for the original and one for the reboot if possible?

[Anchus Definy]

I would read it but damn it I can't take a story where the main character ends up dead...

[Melody Brush]

4179098 Actually I should rewrite that. No one dies in this story, I had changed my mind about that at the last minute.

4173301 I had started a sequel for this at one point, but I lost track of it.

[Anchus Definy]

4179450 oh ok read time then ^^

[brony323]

4179450 might not be a bad idea to retry? I had to redo my first idea for a book

[Melody Brush]

4179956 In do time. I'v got another story to finish with a deadline.

[brony323]

4182484 fair enough

[NicLove]

what happened ?
Heart Of Fire: Feathers Of Flame

[Melody Brush]

11171480
I unpublished the story to work on rewriting it in the future.

[Dark Mechanicus]

is there a happy ending here?

[Melody Brush]

11494475
I kinda left it open for future installments, but I haven't had an idea to write for a long time.